Entirely unexpected

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YouTube decided that I might be interested in an obscure TV promotional clip that was broadcast shortly after the filming of "Twenty Years After" -- I was, but not least because the young man sitting in the background behind everyone else ("because he sings offstage", jokes Georgii Jungwald-Khil'kevich, a.k.a. the Unpronounceable Director -- Smekhov refers to him in his memoir simply as 'Khili' :-p) turned out, much to my surprise, to be a remarkably good-looking Igor Nadzhiev. I mean, he was striking enough that I'd actively been wondering who he was, since he definitely wasn't one of the actors in the picture. In fact he was the solo soundtrack singer, whose appearance I'm more familiar with from the covers to various individual tracks from the film, obviously released much later:

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But by that point he has a fine voice but bears a disconcerting resemblance to Michael Jackson.

Apparently right at the beginning of his career, with shorter hair and several nose jobs earlier, he actually looked quite different...

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